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Video at original size - blacken out surrounding screen

Posted: 09 Jan 2009 00:46
by Crigou
Hi,
maybe you know the divx webplayer. It has a feature that makes the whole screen around the video black - so watching films, in there original size, that is not fullscreen, is more acceptable.
Does vlc als has a feature like this? Or is there some addon/plugin/whatever to implement this?

Thank you

Re: Video at original size - blacken out surrounding screen

Posted: 09 Jan 2009 01:40
by Jean-Baptiste Kempf
No. :D

Re: Video at original size - blacken out surrounding screen

Posted: 09 Jan 2009 03:42
by Crigou
Hmmm - that's kinda bad =)
Maybe should be developed for vlc...

Re: Video at original size - blacken out surrounding screen

Posted: 09 Jan 2009 10:13
by Jean-Baptiste Kempf
Do it :) :)

Re: Video at original size - blacken out surrounding screen

Posted: 13 Jan 2009 15:06
by Shakama
thats the same thing i want and i created a thread about it. why not do it, sounds like a neat idea and i want it really bad.

Re: Video at original size - blacken out surrounding screen

Posted: 13 Jan 2009 17:55
by VLC_help
Most devs don't do requests that people want. They do what they need/want (or their employer wants). And no one is forced to do anything. So popularity vote doesn't mean anything.

This should be quite easy to implement. Do black borders filter (should be easy) and specialize case where you add black borders so that the movie is on center and darkness fills the rest of current monitor resolution.

Re: Video at original size - blacken out surrounding screen

Posted: 14 Jan 2009 01:48
by Shakama
hey i love VLC, and as long as the player remains good then i dont care.

Re: Video at original size - blacken out surrounding screen

Posted: 26 Jan 2009 20:46
by Jean-Baptiste Kempf
Will be doable in 1.0.

Re: Video at original size - blacken out surrounding screen

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 19:58
by jeetspam
you should check out the divx web player developer forums for DivX. their folks are pretty good about listening to new ideas.

http://labs.divx.com/forum